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May 2, 2013Hungary Torn
March 17, 2013The Vampire
February 10, 2013Truth or Truffles
January 25, 2013What Makes a Masterpiece
December 13, 2012The Cage Concert
October 26, 201250th Birthday Celebration
April 19, 2012Crumb
March 18, 2012The Hunchback of Notre Dame
February 10, 2012Orientalism in France
January 20, 2012Stravinsky Outside Russia
December 11, 2011Parallel Lives: Liszt & Busoni
October 21, 2011Bauhaus Bach
April 21, 2011Passover in Exile
March 29, 2011American Harmonies: The Music of Walter Piston
February 25, 2011The Music of Spain: Composers of the Civil War
January 30, 2011Albéric Magnard's Bérénice
November 2, 2010Music and the Bible
October 6, 2010James Joyce.
May 9, 2010Apollo and Dionysus
April 9, 2010Robert Schumann: Scenes From Goethe's Faust
February 24, 2010After the Thaw
January 29, 2010An American Biography: The Music of Henry Cowell
January 29, 2010An American Biography: The Music of Henry Cowell
November 15, 2009The Remains of Romanticism
October 14, 2009Vincent d'Indy: Fervaal
May 31, 2009Composing a Nation: Israel's Musical Patriarchs
March 22, 2009Revisiting William Grant Still
February 20, 2009Persecution and Hope: Masterworks of Conscience
January 25, 2009Music of the Other Germany
December 7, 2008Against the Avant-Garde: Romanticisms of the 1920s
October 3, 2008Le roi d'Ys
June 1, 2008Spatial Explorations
April 18, 2008A New Italian Renaissance
March 4, 2008The Destruction of Jerusalem
January 25, 2008Russian Futurists
November 18, 2007Human Elements
September 30, 2007The Wreckers
June 3, 2007Uncommon Comrades
April 15, 2007The Distant Sound
  • Der ferne Klang (1910) by Christopher Hailey, Edward T. Cone Membership in Music Studies in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • The Distant Sound by Leon Botstein
February 9, 2007Making Music
January 7, 2007Pioneering Influence
November 17, 2006Symphonic Mexico
October 22, 2006The Art of the Psalm
June 11, 2006From Russia With Mozart
May 21, 2006Swiss Accounts
April 7, 2006The Gathering Storm
January 29, 2006Paradise
November 18, 2005Creative Links
September 25, 2005Inventing America
April 17, 2005Richard Strauss Choral Works
March 11, 2005Hans Christian Andersen
February 3, 2005An Operatic Rarity
January 16, 2005Revolution 1905
November 14, 2004Beethoven's Pupil
October 15, 2004Complicated Friendship
June 6, 2004Spiritual Romanticism
April 2, 2004Victorian Secrets
March 5, 2004Opera Scandal 1920s
February 8, 2004Jews and Vienna, City of Music
November 21, 2003The Neoclassical Mirror
September 28, 2003The Artist's Conscience
April 11, 2003The Circle of Shostakovich
March 14, 2003Musical Autobiography
February 9, 2003The Romantic Soul: Lord Byron in Music
January 10, 2003Bruckner's Journey
November 17, 2002American Originals
October 6, 2002The Egyptian Helen
June 9, 2002Opera and Oscar Wilde
  • Opera and Oscar Wilde by Leon Botstein
  • Zemlinsky’s Mirror by Christopher Hailey, Visiting Professor, Arnold Schoenberg Institute, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Director, Franz Schreker Foundation
May 10, 2002Scandinavian Romantics
April 14, 2002Strauss' Musical Landscapes
January 25, 2002Dante's Inferno
December 5, 2001A World Apart
October 10, 2001From the Last Century
May 16, 2001After Carmina Burana: an Historical Perspective
March 30, 2001The Uses of History: Reincarnations of Beethoven
February 4, 2001Nostalgia: The Past Idealized Through Music
December 13, 2000Forgotten Patriotisms: Music as Political History
November 19, 2000The Anxiety of Influence: Music as Historical Legacy
October 20, 2000After Carmina Burana: an Historical Perspective
April 16, 2000A Symphonic Saga: Glière’s Ilya Muramets
March 8, 2000Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzshe and Music
February 4, 2000Polishing the Jewel: The Genius of George Enescu
January 16, 2000Richard Strauss, Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (1940)
December 1, 1999Bruckner's Divided Vienna
October 15, 1999Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
May 12, 1999Fin de Siècle
April 25, 1999Bluebeard!
March 17, 1999The Composter’s Advocate: Serge Koussevitzky
January 17, 1999Music of the 1960s
November 11, 1998Music and Visual Imagination
October 4, 1998Kings and Prophecies: A Road of Promise
May 13, 1998Nadia Boulanger
April 5, 1998The Musical Romance of Childhood
February 25, 1998Music of Conscience
January 18, 1998Richard Strauss's Die agyptische Helena
November 30, 1997The Other Voice of Johannes Brahms
October 22, 1997Uptown Downtown
May 14, 1997Admiration and Emulation: The Friendship of Brahms and Dvorák
April 13, 1997Against the Grain: The German Influence in French Music at the Turn of the Century
March 12, 1997Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music
January 24, 1997The Soul of Poland in Modern Times
November 22, 1996A “Politically Incorrect” Masterpiece
October 6, 1996The Composer’s Voice
May 10, 1996Sounds of Fantasy: Music and Expressionism
April 28, 1996Faith: Meditation and Mysticism
March 3, 1996America’s Musical Pioneer
January 26, 1996Jews and the European Musical Tradition
November 10, 1995Mythology: Homer’s Odyssey in Music
October 1, 1995Behind the Curtain
April 30, 1995Between War and Peace
March 10, 1995Unjust Obscurity? (II)
January 13, 1995Bruckner and 20th –Century Politics
December 11, 1994Berlin 1894: A Concert Recreated
November 18, 1994Schubert Orchestrated
September 25, 1994Paris in the 1860s
May 22, 1994The American 1980’s
April 15, 1994Common Ground
March 11, 1994An Italian Journey through German Romanticism
February 18, 1994The Breakup of the Soviet Union: A Musical Mirror
December 19, 1993Der Rosenkavalier: The Silent Film
September 26, 1993Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music
April 30, 1993Focus on a Masterwork: Brahms's Fourth Symphony
February 26, 1993Unjust Obscurity?
November 13, 1992Surrealism and Music? The Musical World Around René Magritte